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Baltimore county firefighters responded to a single-alarm fire in a Middleborough row home today, fire officials said. Glenn Bitters, of the county's fire liaison office, said firefighters responded to the Epping Court home, where they found a fire on the second story. Bitters said the fire was quickly extinguished and the four adults believed to reside in the home were unharmed. No other details were available. erica.green@baltsun.com .

Baltimore City Police reported two related shootings, one of them fatal, Monday night in Southwest Baltimore. The incident happened about 8:44 p.m. in the 3000 block of Brighton St. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that one of the victims came to St. Agnes Medical Center for treatment. Their identities were not released. Jacques.kelly@baltsun.com

A Baltimore County police cruiser collided with another vehicle Saturday in Towson, police said, sending one person to the hospital. The marked patrol unit from Towson collided with a black Mitsubishi SUV just before 2 p.m. near the intersection of Putty Hill Avenue and Goucher Boulevard, according to Baltimore County Police. The police crash team was on the scene investigating the incident at 4:30 p.m. No determination of fault had been made by that time, police said. The injured person was taken to Greater Baltimore Medical Center, police said.

Baltimore County's Board of Education is seeking input from residents about its search for a new superintendent of schools. Three public forums have been scheduled for residents to inform board members of issues they should consider when choosing a new head for the county's school system. The first meeting will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Loch Raven High School, 1212 Cowpens Ave. in Towson. On Thursday, two meetings will be held, both beginning at 6 p.m. One gathering will be conducted at Woodlawn High School, 1801 Woodlawn Drive in Woodlawn.

Harford Road in the Glen Arm area is closed between Hartley Mill and Glen Arm roads because of downed trees and wires following storms and heavy winds that swept through the region last night, according to Baltimore County police. Authorities have received no reports of major flooding in the county, Cpl. John Wachter said.

A sewer overflow from a broken pipe near Hollins Ferry Road in the Halethorpe area went undetected for several days, and dumped about 100,000 gallons a day into the Herbert Run stream, according to the Baltimore County Department of Public Works. Officials said the broken pipe was believed to have been caused by a fallen tree, which was reported Aug. 24. Crews were dispatched to the site and the repair was made. Public works officials said the county's Department of Health will monitor water quality in the stream, publish results and issue water contact advisories when necessary on the Department's website.

This week was pretty busy in the land of Baltimore technology. Here are some of the cool things that happened. * Baltimore Tweet maps : Dave Troy, 410 Labs cofounder , and Chris Whong, head of Charm City Networks , collaborated online to develop a map of Baltimore-based tweets . You can explore this map's geo-located tweets from Baltimore people, collected on Aug. 27. Chris even overlayed vacant housing on the map, so you can see...

There's so much happening in Baltimore these days that my little ol' tech blog can't keep up with it. Here's what happened this week, and what's coming up that you should know about: 1. Tech Parents can party: We held the second bi-monthly Baltimore Tech Parents happy hour event on Tuesday night, at Heavy Seas Alehouse . The topic was "disruptive online education. " The guest speakers were Susan Magsamen, of Curiosityville.com, and Burck Smith, CEO of StraighterLine.com. The discussion was great.

The Community College of Baltimore County has agreed to pay $50,000 and provide other relief to settle an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced Monday. The lawsuit accused the college of failing to hire Sheri Chosak as a part-time adviser for English as a second language at its Owings Mills campus because she was 60 years old. Chosak has been a registration clerk at the Owings Mills campus since 2001. In addition to compensating Chosak, the settlement requires the college to provide at least two hours of mandatory training on preventing age discrimination and federal anti-discrimination laws to all managers at its Owings Mills campus.